Yes, show me your peer reviewed studies that prove masks work to stop covid.
Let's start here:
"But Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, publisher of CIDRAP News, said that scientific inquiry needs to shift away from medical masks, which have already been established as inferior to N95s. "We just don't need another poorly designed and conducted study on this," he said.
Osterholm called the WHO's recommendation for HCWs to wear either masks or N95s during COVID-19 patient care "public health malpractice."
"I'm convinced that someday people are going to look back on this and ask, 'How could they have known what they knew about this and not done more to protect us?' "
The upshot, said CIDRAP research consultant and respiratory protection expert Lisa Brosseau, ScD, CIH, is that these types of studies may reinforce health system misperceptions that masks are sufficient protection. "It's the same thing every time," she said of poorly designed studies. "Everybody says, 'Oh look, surgical masks are just as good as respirators, so we don't need a respirator.' A lot of healthcare workers just aren't getting the kind of respiratory protection they need."
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Michael Thomas Osterholm is an American epidemiologist, Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. On November 9, 2020, Osterholm was named to newly elected President Joe Biden's COVID-19 Advisory Board. Wikipedia |
